[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[Gary Pownall]

Gnu/Linux has indeed come a very long way indeed from the frustrating  
days of Mandrake 9.1 and it's broken "supermount."
On 21 Mar 2009, at 23:57, Paul Lee wrote:

> Christopher Hunter wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 17:55 +0000, Sarah Lemarié wrote:
>>>> The mother says - "Oh look - a Linux penguin. My brother is into  
>>>> Linux".
>>> How about when the mother says 'Oh I use Linux!' ? :)
>>>
>>> That's what I'm after!
>>>
>>> Sarah.
>>
>> That's exactly what happened to me the other day - I took out my
>> Ubuntu-loaded laptop on the train and fired it up.  The woman next  
>> to me
>> asked "Do you prefer Gnome or kde?".  I was stunned!
>>
>> C.
>>
>
> XFCE or Fluxbox of course! ;o)
>
> Seriously, have been wiping a few Windows XP installations with  
> Xubuntu
>  which runs sweet, on old Compaq Armada's and Toshiba Satellite's  
> (well
> a bit of tweaking xorg.conf in the case of the latter to get a full
> screen display).
>
> Ubuntu "just works" out of the box. I was amazed I could connect
> effortlessly to wireless networks (seems any generic USB stick  
> works) or
> 3G Orange Mobile Broadband via my phone. Even my webcams work!
>
> Paul
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